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I had a friend who during the early part of the war worked a Curtis in St. Louis and later, he was in the air corps and flew the P40 in training...
I had the opportunity to have student co-op's work on programs for me and some were good and others weren't really engineers... When I was...
Didn't think of that (wake turbulence) but it makes a lot of sense and would depend on the crosswind component... good catch Taz...
The scary part of this was that the pilot supposedly reported that the roll to the left was not commanded...… At least that's what they said on...
Yes, exactly. I think that for a long time Boeing was of pretty much the same opinion. In the old days you had some "assist", but it didn't fly...
You're right, it isn't required, and they should have gone further. If they had the experience we had they would have but they didn't. The...
furmano, MCAS was employed to "enhance" the handling characteristics not as a safety related system. It was employed to make the Max handle...
They still don't get it.... The failure of the AoA sensor is inducing erroneous readings to the pilot telling him his airspeed is incorrect and...
You folks don't understand how the certification system works. Most of the oversight is done by the DER's, or Designated Engineering...
Our problem with our software was that the people doing the programming weren't pilots, they were software engineers who took the FAA criteria of...
The MCAS system should also have been "speed limited". That is, since it's related to the stall prevention system it should not activate at...
For all of these sensors, if you only have two you really only have one. As noted, if one signal present but not in agreement with the other you...
Here is an article in the Seattle Times that I saw a week or so ago that explains some of what you are asking. It was considered one level below...
Don't know the cost but the cost to Boeing to use the 2 sensors as opposed to one was zero. They had both versions of the software certified, so...
All I can say is that I'm sorely disappointed in Boeing. I've posted here that I felt that Airbus was pursuing a dangerous approach to flight...
The A380 was destined to fail. Boeing always knew the market wasn't that big. Remember that Boeing floated a number of 747 derivatives when...
Not loud, in that mission you don't necessarily want the bad guys to hear you coming..... In the middle east they got the nickname "whispering...
Went on some missions in a T800 powered Huey (we built 5 of them for a demo program) with the US Border Patrol along the southern border in the...
Actually it is mostly science nowadays... Back in the mid 70's when I wrote the nick and blend limits for the F100 we based them a lot on...
What is interesting is that the blade that left went forward a lot more than is typical before it exited the engine. Note that the fan...
